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Bhāvanā ( Anupreksă ) Sūtra
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4. A person who is attached to his parents and others cannot
acquire a noble birth in his next life. Knowing these causes of dangers, one should take vows and give up all vicious acts, which lead to violence.
-- Sū. Kr. Sū. 1.2.1.3
5. Just as a bird flutters its wings and removes the dust by
shaking itself, so the spiritual aspirant engrossed in austerities, annihilates the accumulated karmas of previous births.
-- Sū. Kr. Sū. 1.2.1.15
6. Easily obtainable are the enchanting pleasures of the world
and the affluence of the gods, easy also it is to get sons and friends, but difficult it is to beget Dharma.
-- Prāstāvika
7. He who can call death his friend, who can escape from its
clutches, and who is sure never to die — he only can decide to postpone his duties till tommorrow.
- Utta. Sū. 14.27
8. "I have this and I have not that, this I must do and this I
should not do”, even while a man fondles such thoughts, death lays its jaws on him. Why then should a person be indolent?
- Utta. Sū. 14.15
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